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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
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Hackers have hijacked a large number of sites at web hosting firm HostGator and are seeking to plant trojans on computers of unwitting visitors to customer sites. HostGator customers report that attackers are redirecting their sites to outside web pages that use the unpatched VML exploit in Internet Explorer to install trojans on computers of users. Site owners said iframe code inserted into their web pages was redirecting users to the malware-laden pages. |
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Sunday, 17 September 2006 |
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An update to the osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 version has been released that addresses security related issues and bug reports that exist in the released version. |
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Sunday, 17 September 2006 |
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This is a list of 3rd party Joomla components with known vulnerabilities that will allow hackers access to your site. If you are using any of the following compnents please upgrade or remove the component as listed under fix. It is also very important to make sure you are using the latest version of Joomla, currently 1.0.11, as earlier versions have several High Level vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities dont just effects your website it effects other clients and the entire server as a whole.http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,79477.0.html |
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
Chirpy brought us another great tutorial :
There are two aspects to dealing with spam for a server administrator:
1/ Inbound spam to users
2/ Outbound spam from compromised scripts
Both need very different approaches to help detect, remove and resolve.
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Sunday, 05 February 2006 |
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Distributed denial of service attacks are frustrating -- they're frustrating for the company under attack, and frustrating for the web host. They can also be costly in terms of business and goodwill lost. Fortunately, there are ways to deal with them, if you are willing to prepare for the possibility of a DDoS before it happens. |
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Tuesday, 11 October 2005 |
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Promoters of adware, software that shows advertising on a user's computer, use some cunning tricks to get you to install their software on your machine. Here's what to look out for |
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Tuesday, 20 September 2005 |
Distributed denial-of-service attacks
In a distributed attack, the attacking computers are often personal computers
with broadband connections to the Internet that have been compromised by viruses
or Trojan horse programs. These allow the perpetrator to remotely control machines
to direct the attack, and such an array of computers is called a botnet. With
enough such slave or zombie hosts, the services of even the largest and most well-connected
websites can be disrupted.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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Pc Mag offers us a weekly overview of the worms and virus events happening in our online world.. THey also, thank heaven offer ways to combat the problems. |
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